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The word 'stale'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
staleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91312
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of stale in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
seediness, wi da soor smell a stale beer drifting oot troo da doo on page 57

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ere wis hailstones as herd as stale saffties and the size of smal
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
t wid accept single purchase, stale smell on baith & well used bi(2019)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
tae the bar ah'm hit wae the stale smell ae drink and smoke. Sin on page 71

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
inkin mattress, which smelt o stale pee an sweat an things unment on page 21

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The poetry readins wir stale an twee, on page 133

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Uv course ill stale oot yir purse on page 20

2 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Frichtsome sweit jeeled oan stale straw, on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
like the guff o his stale dowts on page 29

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Livin in yer Granda's stale auld beuks aff beuk barrasi on page 31

1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay tobacco smoke an insipid, stale beer greets us like an auld f
1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an auld stale buns or breid on page 38

1 matches

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